Starz to Delay Some Content On Netflix

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Sam Schechner And

Nick Wingfield

Updated March 25, 2011 2:41 pm ET

Pay-TV channel Starz plans to delay the availability of new TV shows and movies to Netflix Inc., adding to the list of media companies that have signaled plans to keep new content away from the growing online-video giant.

Starz, owned by Liberty Media Corp., said that beginning April 1, that new episodes of its original shows, like the forthcoming "Camelot," will be delayed 90 days before being available on Netflix and a handful of other Internet services to which it licenses content. Starz added that exclusive first-run...

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